1925 NITA NALDI AUTOGRAPHED LARGE FORMAT PORTRAIT PHOTO

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ITEM: You are bidding on a 1925 wonderfully composed scarce original antique 1st generation large format photograph featuring the phenomenal early silent screen vamp star Nita Naldi with original hand signed autograph, and blindstamped lower right by Photographer Edward Thayer Monroe. This is as impossibly beautiful as it gets. T is no COA (Certificate of Authenticity), but this is guaranteed 100% original. it is signed, To A Dellarowe best regards Nita Naldi 1925 ; This is a wonderful Hollywood memorabilia treasure, and it is a treat. This original first generation photograph measures 10 1/4" x 13 1/2." A great sexy portrait with incredible seductive risque elements and really tremendous beauty. Marked on verso by Monroe in inkstamp. This photograph is just an incredible document, and very rare Hollywood treasure that sells no reserve. We have come into an extraordinary collection of antique Hollywood photographs and memorabilia and are happy to combine multiple wins at no additional cost. 100% guaranteed original and vintage. CONDITION: This 1st generation gelatin silver large format photograph is in fine condition with minor creasing as seen, t is a little crease near the hand that appears much more prominently in our scans than in person, this is truly exquisite. 100% guaranteed vintage and original.From All Movie Guide: The "female Valentino," as she liked to call herself, Nita Naldi became the most outrageous vamp of the 1920s -- reportedly both on and off the screen. Born Anita Donna Dooley and convent-educated, Naldi took her professional name from a school chum (Mary Rinaldi) and set out to conquer the world of show business with a vengeance. A chorus girl in The Passing Show of 1918 and The Midnight Whirl (1919), Naldi was appearing in Morris Gest's Aphrodite (1919) when approached by John Barrymore, who cast her as Gina in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920). Although Barrymore would later dismiss her as his "dumb Duse," Naldi is surprisingly modern in her flamboyant role as Hyde's would-be seducer and she steals every scene she's in. She was personally selected by famed writer Vicente Blasco-Ibanez (who, Naldi claimed, dropped his dentures down her cleavage while engaged in a tirade against the Catholic church) for the role of the temptress DoÃ±a Sol in Blood and Sand (1922), outrageously vamping Rudolph Valentino who seems to be literally energized by her lustful behavior. The florid melodrama became her signature film and was so popular that she was reunited with Valentino twice in A Sainted Devil (1924) and Cobra (1925). Gertrude Olmstead met Naldi while filming the latter and later told the film historian Anthony Slide that the notorious femme fatale was "so sweet to me and so very interesting." Contrary to popular belief, Naldi did not play the native girl in Alfred Hitchcock's directorial debut, The Pleasure Garden (1925), but she did turn up somewhat unexpectedly as the schoolteacher in his second film, The Mountain Eagle (1926), a presumably welcome respite from vamping. A few more European films followed, including LÃ©once Perret's La Femme Nue (1926), but her type had become an anachronism by then and she wisely retired at the advent of sound. T were brief returns to Broadway -- The Firebird (1932), Queer People (1934) -- and Naldi became one of the former Hollywood luminaries featured at Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe nightclub in the early '40s, w, quite appropriately, she recited Rudyard Kipling's famous poem A Fool T Was backed by a line of chorus boys. Naldi's final public appearance came opposite Uta Hagen in the 1952 stage comedy In Any Language. One of the last of a breed, Naldi brought old-fashioned screen vamping into the more liberated age of the Roaring Twenties, the true heiress to the throne vacated by Theda Bara. But screen vamps rarely took themselves too seriously, she confessed in a later interview. "At least I didn't and I know some of my best friends and rivals didn't either." Spending her final years as a recluse, Nita Naldi died of a heart a... read more

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